 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1894 - 1326 pages
...henceforth deempd a depdand, or in any wise forfeited on account of such misfortt:n». ViRGiNIA. 1 i. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any contract, deprive or divest their posterity — namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly - 1895 - 130 pages
...convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posteiity as the basis and foundation of governmerd. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...of which, when they enter into a state of society, ihey cannot by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,... | |
 | Harry Alonzo Cushing - 1896 - 296 pages
...men are bora equally Iree and independent " Journal, 193. The Virginia Declaration, Art. 1, states: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state ol society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of... | |
 | David Meade Massie - 1896 - 316 pages
...compelled them to assert themselves, which they did, justifying their conduct by the declaration, " that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of pursuing and obtaining... | |
 | Larry E. Tise - 1998 - 690 pages
...Tucker next ranted about the practice of domestic slavery itself: That a people who have declared. 'That all men are by nature equally free and independent." and have made this declaration the first article in the foundation of their government . . . should tolerate... | |
 | Bardo Fassbender - 1998 - 444 pages
...Oppenheim-Lauterpacht, 8th ed. (supra note 388), at 414. 426 See Virginia Bill of Rights, June 12, 1776, sec. 1: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent . . . ', and the French Declaration des droits de I 'homme et du citoyen, Aug. 26, 1789, Art. I, cl. 1 : 'Les homrnes... | |
 | Guðmundur S. Alfreðsson, Asbjørn Eide - 1999 - 822 pages
...people of Virginia (12 June 1776) is squarely based on natural rights and contract theory. It declares: That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, divest or deprive their posterity ... The Declaration of Independence of the United States (1776) says:... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 1999 - 212 pages
...A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia . . . which ... do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. The first article of the aforesaid, asserts That all men are by nature equally free and independent,... | |
 | Norman G. Kurland, Dawn K. Brohawn, Michael D. Greaney - 2004 - 262 pages
...prepared by CESJ under a grant by the William H. Donner Foundation, December 2002. www.cesj.org "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 pages
...1776 — before either the Declaration of Independence or the Massachusetts constitution — declared that "all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest... | |
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That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact S09 ^ to deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,... 
